Jim’s Reviews > A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire > Status Update

...few of the Southern individualists cared much about camp duty. The squalor and disorder of a Confederate camp, the informality with which the men treated their commanders, would have given a Union officer the dark blue horrors and did when they saw it. Robert E. Lee never inspected his camps; he shrank from what he would find. And after every battle a few thousand individualists straggled away...